Climate Change Ecology
- Impacts of multiple environmental stressors on organisms: How
multiple climate variables jointly alter species performance and
interactions?
- Integrating biological responses to temperature warming across
levels of biological organization: How can we scale up from changes in
individuals’ traits and species interactions to predict population
dynamics and community structure?
- Effects of environmental variations and extremes on biological
responses: Are variations and extremes critical for determining species
performance and fitness consequences besides means?
- Novel interactions and trophic mismatches: How climate-driven
phenological/geographical shifts and the resulting temporal/spatial
synchrony/asynchrony affect population dynamics of interacting
species?
- The role of phenotypic plasticity in buffering short-term and
long-term environmental change: Will short-term acclimation facilitate
or impede long-term adaptation?